The viscous dissipation essentially arises at three locations, (i) at the solid tank boundary layers, i.e. bottom and sidewall, (ii) in the fluid bulk and (iii) at the free surface, the latter being typically negligible for ideal surface waves (in absence of any form of contamination). A well-known formula for the prediction of the viscous damping coefficient of capillary–gravity waves in upright cylindrical containers was provided by [1]} and [2]}. Such an estimation is computed according to the following formula
\(\sigma =\frac{2k_{mn}}{Re}+\left(\frac{\omega _{mn}}{2Re}\right)^{1/2}\frac{k_{mn}}{\sinh {\left(2k_{mn}H\right)}}+\left(\frac{\omega _{mn}}{2Re}\right)^{1/2}\left[\frac{1}{2}\frac{1+\left(m/k_{mn}\right)}{1-\left(m/k_{mn}\right)}-\frac{k_{mn}H}{\sinh {\left(2k_{mn}H\right)}}\right],\) 
